Im wondering if my huge 1/2 horspower electric blower motor for my home furnace/ central air system is failing and caused the capacitor to fail, or whether the caps just fail on their own sometimes. The fan/motor turns freely by hand, and I noticed that the fan was slowly losing power over a number of days. The reason why i know this is that the vents were all sweating (condensing) on the outside the other day when i went down to put roach poison (dirt basement) down there. Anyways, the day the motor actually stopped turning, it seemed to be getting less and less powerful, then finally just stopped. or failed to restart on a cycle, not sure which. Here is the picture of the Cap:
Obviously it is bad, im just hoping to confirm to myself that they *DO* just fail on their own... THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!
-RS in Birmingham, AL (hoping to get A/C system blowing cold by monday morning!!!)

Obviously it is bad, im just hoping to confirm to myself that they *DO* just fail on their own... THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!
-RS in Birmingham, AL (hoping to get A/C system blowing cold by monday morning!!!)